<p>Obstinate - I’d say freak out. But fax it anyway.</p>
<p>@ GetToCollege: Princeton? Yeah, I would probably like the school – seems more alive than HY. How did you tell though?</p>
<p>@Obstinate: Mine doesn’t have one either. I would fax it anyway (definitely), not freak out (doesn’t really help), email them (in case they respond fast), and keep calling them until someone picks up.</p>
<p>except, what are you doing about the counselor’s signature?</p>
<p>Code H, having a high home equity means you need to do a little more digging when figuring out which colleges to apply to. Some things to consider are:
a. look for schools which only use FAFSA when figuring out your parents’ contribution. Home value is not included as an asset on FAFSA. If your parents are eligible to use a 1040EZ or 1040A tax form, I believe you might automatically qualify for a $0 EFC using the FAFSA formula. However, that doesn’t mean a school will have enough FA available to grant you a free ride. Ideally, you have a state school or community college you could afford.</p>
<p>b. look for schools which disregard home equity altogether, or cap it at a certain portion of income. Princeton and Harvard disregard home equity. Stanford caps it at 1.2 times annual income. The problem is those are very tough schools to get accepted to. I believe Whitman College in Washington disregards regard home equity. I’ve read here on CC that Wash U-St. Louis does also, but haven’t checked out the school’s webpage to confirm it. </p>
<p>And yes, you need to take into account how much your parents still owe on the home when figuring out home equity. You will need to do some digging to find out what would be good schools for you to apply to.</p>
<p>muffinish, most schools aren’t very forthcoming about what constitutes “typical assets.” However, on $20,000 income I think it would be very tough to accumulate assets higher than those that are typical! Some of the QB partner schools have extremely generous asset allowances. Stanford has the most straightfoward explanation I’ve been able to find. From [FAQ</a> : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/finaid/site/faq/index.html]FAQ”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/finaid/site/faq/index.html)</p>
<p>"For applicants who report total annual parent income up to $100,000, we generally consider typical assets to be an adjusted total net worth of less than $250,000. Adjusted total net worth usually reflects the sum of the following amounts:</p>
<pre><code>* Cash, savings, checking
- Investments
- Home equity, capped at 1.2 times annual income
- Equity in real estate other than the home
- Business net worth
</code></pre>
<p>We do not include formal retirement assets (401k, 403b, IRA, Keogh) in our analysis. The Financial Aid Office reserves the right to make the final determination of the expected family contribution, in consideration of all factors affecting a familys overall financial situation and ability to pay."</p>
<p>For Yale: (from [Yale</a> University Financial Aid > Our Philosophy and Policies](<a href=“Welcome | Student Financial and Administrative Services”>Welcome | Student Financial and Administrative Services))
“First, Yale will exclude the first $200,000 of all assets from the calculation of the parental contribution. Yale will also reduce the assessment on assets above the $200,000 allowance.”</p>
<p>I JUST GOT IN CONTACT WITH A QB REP!!!</p>
<p>Guess they are open. </p>
<p>They said as long as you submit the rankings online by tonight, the faxes can be sent tomorrow.</p>
<p>^ @purpleturtle - a friend of a friend of a friend - 
(must confess never visited - would like to tho)</p>
<p>Too late to freak out - just do what you can!</p>
<p>@powerbomb - :D</p>
<p>I cannot find the Match Agreement form on My Locker. I’ve looked everywhere, and it’s due today, and if I could just find it I’m willing to hunt down my guidance counselor to have her sign it. Where did everybody else find theirs?</p>
<p>oops. Never mind. Freaked out and didn’t read the whole thing.</p>
<p>i have this huge blank square at the bottom of my agreement form. do i just get it signed in the box? or does something else go there? also i dont have a bar code at the top either…</p>
<p>@ mollybusk, you should have two pages (the cover sheet, and the form proper).</p>
<p>yes i have both, but the cover does not have a bar code and the agreement form has this blank square. in the online match agreement form text it shows writing and lines for signatures in this box… should i just write them in myself?</p>
<p>Yeah, they’re working today. I just called them. My problems were solved.
@everyone: I faxed in 2 pages of the agreement document(including the coversheet and the signed form) However, the Locker page showed that QB only received one page. Anyone has the same problem?</p>
<p>I think QB is going through some technical difficulties right now. I wouldn’t worry so much - it seems like that “NO BARCODE IS SHOWING UP” problem is happening to a lot of us, which means it’s obviously not us. As for deadlines and such, I’ve never seen such lenient people. The QB rep I spoke to said that as long as we do what we’re supposed to do (Submit online rankings by tonight) the paperwork and faxes and such can come in a little later.</p>
<p>will questbridge let us update the app (if we are finalists) before its sent off to colleges?</p>
<p>because i really like to update some info…/sigh</p>
<p>Are they letting everyone fax the agreement form late? I called and emailed but didn’t get a reply, and that’d save my life.</p>
<p>I agree with powerbomb. Just make sure to submit the rankings. The QB rep I spoke with said that they are indeed having technical difficulties with the barcode. Just fax it anyway. The rep said to write your QuestBridge ID number (on the top of “My Locker”) on the cover sheet, and they’ll do these faxes manually.</p>
<p>As for deadlines…I guess since they’re having technical difficulties, it makes sense for them to be a bit lenient as well.</p>
<p>Edit: why in the world is this thread tagged “sex”? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Hello: I am writing this to share what I learned from a phone communication with a QuestBridge staff just before. We had two problems:</p>
<p>1) My son completed the online college ranking this morning and, like some of you, our fax cover sheet doesn’t include a barcode. QB told me that, if ours doesn’t have a barcode, which is a kind of technical problem many students are experiencing now, just put your QuestBridge ID on the next to your name on cover sheet. That’s enough.</p>
<p>2) We didn’t have a chance to receive counselor’s signature yet (yes, my son does everything at the last minute), but she said that it’s OK as long as he completed the online college ranking today. We can submit the signed form “as soon as possible”. I told her that my son’s school would not open until this Wednesday, but she said that we can submit it on Wednesday morning. Don’t submit an uncompleted form and then completed one later again. That can make a confusion.</p>
<p>Can I send the CSS PROFILE more than once? Like, if I get finalist status for QB and send in the PROFILE but I don’t get match status, can I add schools to the list and send the thing again or should I send the PROFILE to all of my schools now? Am I even able to send the PROFILE more than once?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure we can send it more than once. My question is, though, about CSS Profile fee waivers. If, say, I get a waiver for six schools, and send it to only two the first time, can I still use the waiver for the other four?</p>
<p>^ ^ ^ Thanks for the update, SweetMom. That was sweet of you to pass on that news. </p>
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<p>This is what my son’s counselor ended up doing just minutes ago. It looks like everything is okay.</p>